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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1947
Page
1
A rural column blends humor and observation about local life. It notes Elgin traffic counts, a Legion festival crowd, a couple bingoing on one number, and a blanket-sharing debate. It praises Fred Gehring’s recovery, praises soil conservation thoughts, and ribbing one another with jokes, proverbs, and clippings.
Classified and display advertising rates listed per inch or per line. Includes display, readers, and classified rates with a 26 cent minimum. Resolutions of Respect church society and school notices with admission charged, obituaries, and poetry follow regular rates.
On Sept 20 1922 at the Little Brown Church near Nashua Charles Capper and Viola Anderson wed in Decorah Nora Cannon and Harry Wenger also married at the same church Julius Freiburghaus wed Frances Summers at Huron Spide Conner suffers a broken cheek bone in football practice Henry Teachout pleads guilty to larceny seven months jail F R Berg and wife return from Minnesota Point Mr and Mrs Watler P Kohis welcome a 9 12 pound son Sheldon Dean born Sept 12
Practical guidance on poultry, hog, and dairy farming for fall. Topics include clean egg handling, galvanized roof painting, sow nutrition during gestation, exercise and vitamin intake, drying off cows by stopping milking, teat care, and evidence from Iowa State College supporting abrupt drying off without harming milk yield or future bacterial counts.
Harold Strong chairman of Fayette County Soil Conservation District urges cooperative farm plans over coercive government action. He cites land capability use, terracing on hilltops, strip cropping on side hills, and permanent grass or forest on nonproductive land, asking farmers, press, clergy, and schools to support the movement and expand farm plans in North Diyra township and beyond.
An historical note states nearly 100 farm buildings burn annually in the United States and Canada with about 35,000 fires yearly across the region, highlighting agricultural fire hazards and safety concerns.
Tomato juice improves with several hours of resting alongside chopped onions celery basil and tarragon. Before serving strain and chill it for a bright lemon or lime finish.
Moisture aids storage. most vegetables keep longer in air nearly saturated with water vapor. Containers that confine moist air such as paperboard cartons or covered boxes preserve quality better than loose piles in dry air.
Life sketch of William Moses Wilson born Elgin March 30 1876 died Sept 20 1047 at seventy one years five months twenty one days. He was one of nine children six sisters two brothers with a late brother John. He married Maude Fitzgerald in October 1922 at Independence. They moved to Oelwein in 1923 where he worked for the Great Western railway. Mrs Wilson died Aug 5 1947. He leaves six sisters and one brother all in Elgin. Funeral at St Pauls Methodist with Rev Bruce Jones. burial Elgin cemetery. Six nephews served as casket bearers and relatives from Rochester Boscobel Oelwein attended.
Courthouse records show Frank Poor adm. to J E R aft is Adm D $1.00 Lt 139 Herriman's Add. Wadena Sept 18 Curtis H Thiele Waterloo and Arlene A Zummak Oelwein Sept 19 Edward G Koehler Hawkeye and Dorothy Duncan Oelwein.
The article explains that yellow lines on a driver's side indicate no passing until the yellow line ends. Adopted in many states, replacing the old no passing signs. Highway patrols will ticket drivers who ignore the lines.
Fayette county contestant Robert Minger was named champion plowman at the five county digs district plowing contest held Sept. 17 at the Palas farm in Clayton county with 80 percent. Gerald Kamper of Arlington placed 6th. Minger will compete in the national contest in Hamilton county on Saturday Sept. 27. Figures from the U S Department of Commerce show 37.8 percent of Iowa's total income was earned on farms.
Audrey Schuldt, 17, of near Deep River, was badly burned when a gas heater exploded as she tried to light it before a shower. The blast buckled the kitchen floor and damaged the entire building. In a separate Farm item near Williamsburg, Archie Hoskinson was injured while freeing a Belgian horse from a stanchion, the horse sustaining a broken leg and needing humane euthanization.
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